dead horses and bum knees

[Aslan]

Well, I knew it might happen sooner or later, I blew out my knee. (can't pretend to be 20 any more.)

I have surgery on Wednesday (Aug 13th), then a week later the rehab starts.

Don't know if this means no more karate or not, won't know until well into my physical therapy.

[Jorge_Banner]

I wish you the best and a speedy recovery.

I've been 20 a couple of consecutive times and then some so I fully understand.

Get well soon.

[gripper]

Aslan,what were you doing when you blew out the knee???BTW;your surgery date happens to be my birthday-my wih to you will be more synovial fluid;a brand new anterior tendon and LOTS of good painkillers:D

[RIKA]

Good luck Aslan. Prayers will be with you for a speedy and complete recovery.

RIKA

[brass hammer]

YA,WELL!!!,,, BIG-DEAL, YA' FRICKIN' PANSY-A$$.[:roflmao1::beer:]

the 'pain' IS the OTHER HALF of the equation, PAL![I.E.,,,ERUDITE.]

GOOD-LUCK, BRO!,,,and happy 'frickin'-birth-day!,,,

[Aslan]

Aslan,what were you doing when you blew out the knee???BTW;your surgery date happens to be my birthday-my wih to you will be more synovial fluid;a brand new anterior tendon and LOTS of good painkillers:D

Getting my ass kicked by a 20 something blackbelt

[DaRkWoLf]

I wish you the best, Aslan.

[brass hammer]

:roflmao1::rofl:
I REALLY 'DO' LOVE YOU GUYS!

'the pain of age',,,is a reward,,,'in it's sweet self' AND YES!!!,,,I MY SELF WANT A DEATH-MATCH!!! WITH 'keith oberman',,,GO-FIGURE.:devil:

[gripper]

did he do a trap &sweep to a knee bar???

[Aslan]

Basically he taking me down by stepping inside and rotating his knee on my leg - I tried to pivot out of it the wrong way and made it bad.

Totally my fault for being slow and turning the wrong way... knew it when I did it too.

[gripper]

Oh...so th einjury is from over-extension laterally....I thought it might have beenfrom bieng stressed in the opposite direction( You Chinese TMA guys are good at that stuff)...Most of my recurring aches and pains are from the smaller bone breaks I soaked up (its the little things that matter!)vs. the big mid-bone stuff....althought I HAVE been real lucky;no knee,back or hip troubles(knocks loudly on wood!).
THese days I have to be real careful how and when I **** the weigh ton my bad foot;although I am moving better than I was a few months ago...chalk it up to hard but careful training as opposed to over training.I guess there IS a limit to how much ibuprofen I can choke down before I start thinking of opiates again.

[7of7]

It is wednesday,... I hope everything went well,...

[Jorge_Banner]

Has my brain finally given up or are there several post missing?

OK, this (http://www.armslocker.com/forums/showthread.php?p=195159&posted=1#post195159) is what happened.

So how's it going, Aslan?

[gripper]

Aslan,I sincerely hope you are OK....

[Aslan]

Had the surgery yesterday. It went well. They took out a lot of cartilage. Evidently I've done a lot of damage over the years and it finally caught up with me.

Hurts pretty good today, the painkillers help to some extent, but seem to do as much to make my head fuzzy as anything else.

I can move around on crutches a bit, but am in no way mobile from a realistic sense of things.

probably won't be on line much longer as it does hurt to sit like this...


thanks for the concern and best wishes.

[RIKA]

I'm glad that you made it okay. Knee surgery is really tough; sometimes they have to do cartiledge replacement. Please take it easy and follow doctor's orders. Best thoughts for your swift recovery.

RIKA

[Jorge_Banner]

Had the surgery yesterday. It went well. They took out a lot of cartilage. Evidently I've done a lot of damage over the years and it finally caught up with me.

Hurts pretty good today, the painkillers help to some extent, but seem to do as much to make my head fuzzy as anything else.

I can move around on crutches a bit, but am in no way mobile from a realistic sense of things.

probably won't be on line much longer as it does hurt to sit like this...


thanks for the concern and best wishes.


Good for you. Take good care of that knee. There's lots of behinds to kick, yet, all around. We need our legs in order. :beer::beer:

[brass hammer]

'HERE-YE, HERE-YE'!!!,,,and besides that, the 'pain-pills/killers' AIN'T WHERE IT'S AT!,,,,GOOD-LUCK, MR. SMITH&WESSON 'approved' A-R TYPE 'cripple-knee-guy'! [I've 'buds' from the V.A. wanting to 'lay' a few 'opiates' on me to this day!, and I RUN AWAY]

I'VE ALWAYS 'admired' YOU 'friend'.


ya, know ASLAN?,,,I've a young-buck son of a friend I'm fixin' to train,and his 'dad' is against' it.[OH-NO, IT'S ALL ILEAGLE TRAINING]:sleeping:

[heliophobic1]

Aslan, you may be in for a long recovery. I had to have hip surgery just before my 19th birthday. It took over two years for me to finally adjust to my newfound limitations. Now that I've learned what I can and can't do I find that I'm not in as much pain, anymore. I'm just getting over a recent staph infection of the same leg and I have to tell you, not only did that hurt like hell...it set my good old surgical scars to throbbing again. Anyway, enough of my bellyaching...best of luck and a speedy recovery to you, Aslan.

[Jorge_Banner]

This reminds me when I had a back problem. I was bent and barely able to move at all and doctors were piling pill upon pill on me until they gave me the strongest stuff they dared to and to no effect whatsoever. The problem was not susceptible to pain killers. So all I wanted was to get one of them close enough to the bed, near my bent shape to see if I could get my hands around his neck and drive into his brain that I was in pain and a friend of mine, looking at the mountain of pill containers, says: “hey, Jorge, my man, look at it this way, you are getting for free what a lot of people around the world are paying good money to buy . . . enjoy the free trip, man!”. He managed to leave the room just before my shoe arrived to where he had been a moment ago. This brought on more agony to my spine but it would have been worth it if the shoe had hit.

[gripper]

Aslan; I will pray for a swift recovery for you...and all jokes RE chewing your painkillers will be held in reserve until I am out of shoe or backfist range.
My friend ; this may be the time for you to rediscover the joys of pull ups and chin ups...as well as rope climbs; dips and head to hand stands again.

[Aslan]

Aslan; I will pray for a swift recovery for you...and all jokes RE chewing your painkillers will be held in reserve until I am out of shoe or backfist range.
My friend ; this may be the time for you to rediscover the joys of pull ups and chin ups...as well as rope climbs; dips and head to hand stands again.

thanks!

I've completely quit taking any meds and have started doing the exercises the Dr. gave me to do. Nothing earth shattering, but it is surprising what hurts.

Basically I have three exercises to do, 6 set of each:


Lie flat on my back and press my leg flat for 6 seconds
lie flat on my back and raise my leg 12 inches above the ground with my toes pointing up, lower the leg slowly
lie flat on my back, place my foot flat on the ground and pull it in as close to my body as I can while bending my knee


The last one is the one that hurts the most and is causing me a lot of grief.

I'm walking around now, still with a pronounced limp, still with soreness and pain, but I'm going to work through this.

If things continue to progress this quickly, I should be working out again in a month or so.

[Jorge_Banner]

That's good news.

[gripper]

Ahh! Bridge variations.

[brass hammer]

BHAHHHRRRrrr, 'gimp'!!!,,, and, WELCOME-BACK UNTO THE 'FOLD' OF THE WOUNDED/CRIPPLED!!![hell's-a FIRE GANG!!!,,, WE GOT "GUY'S" BLOWN-UP/SHOT-TO-****!!!,,, IN TURD HOLE TURF .these "DAze"}

GOOD-LUCK 'ASLAN' my friend.

[gripper]

Don't sweat it Aslan! You will recover and come back to the dark side....the cookies are still comming along!
Brass';every so often I ALMOST understand that post:cool:

[gripper]

Aslan! How goes the rehab???The heavy bag and a grassy hill await you!!!

[gripper]

Aslan;how goes the rehab????I hope the knee is comming along well.

[Aslan]

Well, I'm going to return to the Dojo next week and see how it goes.

[Jorge_Banner]

Glad to hear. If you see the same guy, use your .45, will you? :twoguns:

[Aslan]

Glad to hear. If you see the same guy, use your .45, will you? :twoguns:

Naw, we're friends. Realistic Martial arts means you are going to get hurt, even in practice. You will break toes, fingers, etc. It's a fact of life. It's also why most schools will not teach the realistic stuff.

If you've never been in a fight, the first time someone hits your or you hit someone, you will pause.

Your brain will need to process what's going on.

The pain will register, survival mode will kick in. (fight or flight)

If the pain or sensations of striking or being struck aren't foreign, you will just keep on functioning without the pause.

Besides, old guys like me don't heal as fast as the young 'uns out there. There are many faster and stronger than me, but I'm not willing to lose.

That, my friends, is the key to all things in life - don't be willing to lose. And when you do lose, don't wallow in it, learn from it.

[Jorge_Banner]

Don't remember where I read this:

Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he's too old to fight, he'll just kill you.

[Aslan]

That sounds about right. :D

[gripper]

"Broken toes"...yeah;that sounds familiar(:bawling:)...and it WAS quite painful.In my ring days I got the usual cuts and scuff markfs over my eyes from slipping punches;but no one ever DID succeed in breaking my nose..blind luck and timing.( not to mention the fact that I was NASTY at clinch range:dgrin::-punch::dgrin:.
How is the training going ; and what form is it taking these days ,Aslan???I am always interested in pointed reminders of the old ,or learning new tricks...:kill:

[Aslan]

I've had to postpone my return to working out. Still having some knee problems and work has gotten in my way as well.

Looks like I'm going to be on the road a lot more for the next few months....

[gripper]

Don't feel bad;Aslan. I still work out ; but a lot of my "endurance work" these days comes from resisted cardio on the cross trainer at the gym ( when my feet hurt from old injuries and long nights at work!)...thank god for TV at the gym( and headphones to tune out the chatterboxes on either side of me!).I still do my "white trash yoga"(bodyweight moves/circuits and complexes);and will probably start trying to get back into some (functional ) iron work after Halloween). You'll be BACK....:D